Author name: Elara Voskian
Elara Voskian is a materials anthropologist and certified aromatherapy practitioner with 12 years of field research on ritual incense apparatus across Japan, Morocco, and pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. She holds a PhD in Material Culture Studies from the University of Leiden and has curated incense burner collections for three international museums. Her work bridges metallurgy, sacred geometry, and thermal dynamics in burner design—published in peer-reviewed journals and taught in workshops worldwide.
